AIP Publishing and the MALMAD Consortium three-year Read & Publish agreement - February 4, 2022
AIP Publishing, a not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences, has reached a three-year Read & Publish agreement with MALMAD, the Israeli Inter-University Center for Digital Information Services. This is AIP Publishing’s second Read & Publish agreement in the Middle East. Eight leading academic members of… Read More
Wiley and the Royal Danish Library announce OA agreement - February 3, 2022
Global research and education leader Wiley has announced a new four-year agreement with the Royal Danish Library (RDL) which will enable more open access research to be published by Danish researchers while allowing authors to retain copyright of their articles without embargo. Through this arrangement, scholars will… Read More
The Royal Society adopts CCC RightsLink for Scientific Communications to scale OA institutional agreements - February 3, 2022
CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has announced that The Royal Society, the UK’s National Academy of Science, has adopted RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC) to support its Open Access (OA) institutional agreements. The Royal… Read More
Wiley and Projekt DEAL extend OA agreement into fourth year - February 2, 2022
Wiley, a global leader in research and education, has announced the extension of its landmark open access partnership with Projekt DEAL, a countrywide consortium representative of more than 900 academic institutions in Germany. The landmark agreement, which began in 2019, provides participating Projekt DEAL institutions with… Read More
PLOS and IReL announce three-year OA publishing agreement - February 2, 2022
PLOS, the non-profit open access publisher, and IReL, the Irish library consortium, has announced a new three-year open access agreement, which allows researchers at eight participating institutions to publish open access articles in PLOS journals. This agreement is IReL’s twentieth open access agreement and its first… Read More
Wiley and SCELC announce new pilot agreement to deliver more OA articles - January 31, 2022
Global research and education leader Wiley has announced a new pilot agreement with the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) to accelerate the publication of open access articles across 61 SCELC members and affiliates. The agreement supports researchers at participating institutions – which span the U.S.… Read More
IOP Publishing unveils portfolio-wide transparent peer review on its OA journals - January 31, 2022
IOP Publishing (IOPP) is moving all its open access (OA) journals to transparent peer review, making it the first physics publisher to adopt the approach portfolio-wide. Transparent peer review involves publication of the complete peer review process, from initial review to a final decision. This means that… Read More
PLOS responds to the Wissenschaftsrat (German Science Council) statement on Open Access - January 28, 2022
PLOS, a non-profit open-access STM publisher, has welcomed the January 24, 2022, statement from the German Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat) advocating that Open Access (OA), via a CC BY license, should become the default for scientific publications. The statement observes that a move to Open Access entails… Read More
Wiley announces new three-year deal with the Slovenian Academic Consortium to accelerate open access research - January 27, 2022
Global research and education leader Wiley has announced a new three-year agreement with the Slovenian Academic Consortium (CTK consortium) to accelerate open access research. The agreement allows 10 member institutions across Slovenia to access all of Wiley’s hybrid and subscription journals and grants researchers the ability… Read More
IOP Publishing and the TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology announce three-year unlimited OA publishing agreement - January 27, 2022
Not-for-profit society publisher IOP Publishing (IOPP) and TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology have established a consortium agreement which enables researchers at participating German institutions to publish unlimited articles on an open access (OA) basis in 56 hybrid and 15 fully open access (OA)… Read More
